Perry writes:
Mike Godwin says:
Try to sue for damages when your work is available for free to millions of people. The judge will laugh in your face, copyright or no. Damages are, after all, related to lost revenue -- if you allow anyone who wants to see something for free in one medium, you will have a fucking hard time to keep them from examining it in another equivalent medium.
One can register the work and sue for statutory damages and attorneys' fees. No need to prove damages in such a case.
Absolutely true, but one has to say "Copyright" in the work in such a case.
This is not true.
Virtually no usenet work has that magic word in it. From what I understand, if you don't say "Copyright" they can stop you in court but there is a presumption going for the defendant.
May have been true in the old days, but it isn't true now. --Mike